1) To develop mental fitness and distance from our impulses (to develop agency) 2) To accumulate an inventory of human errors and bias so that we do not make them in our own lives, and are not affected by others who employ them. 3) To survey the sets of myths and paradigms (stories we tell ourselves) such that we can choose goals in our lives. 4) (the bad part) to find a verbal means of achieving some degree of the mindfulness that is trainable through religion(mythology), ritual (prayer or repetitious action), and self authoring (stoicism – a ritual), and meditation (a ritual in and of itself). Mindfuless serves as a sedative for animal impulse, without the soporific affect of chemicals that interfere with processing in general.. As far as I know that is the end of philosophy. The rest is just left to religion(nonsense/lies) or science (decidability/truth). Nearly all of the corpus of philosophy is reducible to fantasy moral literature (french), or fantasy psychological Literature (german), fantasy pseudoscientific literature (ashkenazi), or the attempt to develop scientific versions of those fields (english, American.) The problem with science, law proper, and truth proper is that in matters of the personal and social we are not ambivalent neutral surveyors of the material – but seek only personal and group advantage in whatever we can filter from it to advance our interests. Yet science and truth are uncomfortable and dehumanizing. So to no small degree, philosophy is PRACTICED as the pseudoscience and pseudo-rationalism of finding excuses that comfort us given our genetic, social, economic, cultural, and temporal conditions without relying on the demands easily falsified and supernatural faith. In other words, like religion, it’s therapeutic self medication – sedation.
Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science
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What Is the Purpose of Philosophy?
1) To develop mental fitness and distance from our impulses (to develop agency) 2) To accumulate an inventory of human errors and bias so that we do not make them in our own lives, and are not affected by others who employ them. 3) To survey the sets of myths and paradigms (stories we tell ourselves) such that we can choose goals in our lives. 4) (the bad part) to find a verbal means of achieving some degree of the mindfulness that is trainable through religion(mythology), ritual (prayer or repetitious action), and self authoring (stoicism – a ritual), and meditation (a ritual in and of itself). Mindfuless serves as a sedative for animal impulse, without the soporific affect of chemicals that interfere with processing in general.. As far as I know that is the end of philosophy. The rest is just left to religion(nonsense/lies) or science (decidability/truth). Nearly all of the corpus of philosophy is reducible to fantasy moral literature (french), or fantasy psychological Literature (german), fantasy pseudoscientific literature (ashkenazi), or the attempt to develop scientific versions of those fields (english, American.) The problem with science, law proper, and truth proper is that in matters of the personal and social we are not ambivalent neutral surveyors of the material – but seek only personal and group advantage in whatever we can filter from it to advance our interests. Yet science and truth are uncomfortable and dehumanizing. So to no small degree, philosophy is PRACTICED as the pseudoscience and pseudo-rationalism of finding excuses that comfort us given our genetic, social, economic, cultural, and temporal conditions without relying on the demands easily falsified and supernatural faith. In other words, like religion, it’s therapeutic self medication – sedation.
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Stoicism Is Intuitive and Absent Any Woo Woo.
STOICISM IS INTUITIVE AND ABSENT ANY WOO WOO. THE ANSWER TO A BLUE PILLED WORLD by James Santagata What is powerful about Stoicism is that forces us to maintain an INTERNAL locus of control along with high agency. At the same time, filtering out emotions by considering what we have rather than what we don’t and aligning with natural law allow us to think, calculate and act in the most efficient, effective manner possible. Conserving energy, creating the smallest emotional wake (for ourselves and others, thus mitigating or eliminating negative 2nd and 3rd order effects) and economizing motion as well as emotion. What I love about this stuff, is that many of us, me including, stumbled on this, as the only thing that made sense in a Blue-Pilled world- and it is so comforting to say, “omg, this is actually a fully formed philosophy”. BUT we have the added advantage of neuroscience and 2.000 years of accumulated history to take it even further. Love it. And with microeconomics, and nanoeconomics, and behavioral economics. We have the Holy Grail. We can now mathematically model Stoicism and we understand not just ourselves but everyone we interact with, through (as you are wont to say) incentives, we can look at max and min as well as elasticity / inelasticity through microeconomics and with all this granular data, we can look at nanoeconomisc (individual transaction) and then set all this against behavioral economisc / neuroeconomics and see that Stoicism is the way forward and we can improve it Stoicism 2.0 but added a few things and emphasizing a few others. (Omg, I’m gonna orgasm.)
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Stoicism Is Intuitive and Absent Any Woo Woo.
STOICISM IS INTUITIVE AND ABSENT ANY WOO WOO. THE ANSWER TO A BLUE PILLED WORLD by James Santagata What is powerful about Stoicism is that forces us to maintain an INTERNAL locus of control along with high agency. At the same time, filtering out emotions by considering what we have rather than what we don’t and aligning with natural law allow us to think, calculate and act in the most efficient, effective manner possible. Conserving energy, creating the smallest emotional wake (for ourselves and others, thus mitigating or eliminating negative 2nd and 3rd order effects) and economizing motion as well as emotion. What I love about this stuff, is that many of us, me including, stumbled on this, as the only thing that made sense in a Blue-Pilled world- and it is so comforting to say, “omg, this is actually a fully formed philosophy”. BUT we have the added advantage of neuroscience and 2.000 years of accumulated history to take it even further. Love it. And with microeconomics, and nanoeconomics, and behavioral economics. We have the Holy Grail. We can now mathematically model Stoicism and we understand not just ourselves but everyone we interact with, through (as you are wont to say) incentives, we can look at max and min as well as elasticity / inelasticity through microeconomics and with all this granular data, we can look at nanoeconomisc (individual transaction) and then set all this against behavioral economisc / neuroeconomics and see that Stoicism is the way forward and we can improve it Stoicism 2.0 but added a few things and emphasizing a few others. (Omg, I’m gonna orgasm.)
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“Agency is a massive duty. There is nothing easy about it.”—-Greg Hamilton
—“Agency is a massive duty. There is nothing easy about it.”—-Greg Hamilton
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 23:08:00 UTC
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The limits of Agency like Truth are infinite. Of those limits however, we can se
The limits of Agency like Truth are infinite. Of those limits however, we can separate the institutional(both formal and non), resource, our physical, emotional, intellectual, limits and our knowledge. AFIK the agencies that separate man from beast are emotional and intellectual.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 18:02:12 UTC
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Is the demarcation between animal and human speech or agency? Because I am incre
Is the demarcation between animal and human speech or agency? Because I am increasingly convinced it’s agency and the vast majority of humans are in fact merely animals.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 16:50:56 UTC
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Curt Doolittle updated his status. DEMARCATION BETWEEN ANIMAL AND HUMAN? Is the
Curt Doolittle updated his status.
DEMARCATION BETWEEN ANIMAL AND HUMAN?
Is the demarcation between animal and human speech or agency? Because I am increasingly convinced it’s agency and the vast majority of humans are in fact merely animals.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 16:50:45 UTC
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DEMARCATION BETWEEN ANIMAL AND HUMAN? Is the demarcation between animal and huma
DEMARCATION BETWEEN ANIMAL AND HUMAN?
Is the demarcation between animal and human speech or agency? Because I am increasingly convinced it’s agency and the vast majority of humans are in fact merely animals.
Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 12:50:00 UTC
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“What do you mean by “Masculine men conversations”?—Kari Anne Dorstad Um. A st
—“What do you mean by “Masculine men conversations”?—Kari Anne Dorstad
Um. A stream of facts about stuff you can eat, hunt, kill, have sex with, or use to obtain any one of the previous. (Or any proxy thereof.)
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Source date (UTC): 2018-07-11 00:37:30 UTC
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